When I see the notifications popup in the top right corner, it surprisingly reminds me of old FB. Back when instead of an app buzzing in my pocket 24/7 with notifications that are actually just ads or BS, I intentionally choose to log on, see the notification, and think "Oh, someone interacted with me, let's go see what they said."

Same. I’m loving it. Feels new and nostalgic at the same time.

I used the old site for more than a decade, and I remember when the highest upvoted posts on the frontpage had only 2K upvotes. Lemmy is at that point now and its future is full of potential.

Glad to have you around here!

I'm here because I want to be on Reddit, but the Reddit I want to be on doesn't exist anymore.

What is kbin and how does it relate to Lemmy?

I am guessing kbin is an app for Lemmy like wefwef?

Hey, the speed issue is solely because the instance you're on, Lemmy.world, is way overcrowded. You can resolve this issue by joining a smaller instance or even hosting your own. The best part of Lemmy is you aren't tied to any one server. You can create an account on a different instance/site and never miss a Lemmy post. I'm on my own private instance and have zero issues with loading speed

Reminds me of Reddit in 2008 when I joined. Legitimate communities forming and finding their way. Wasn't super intuitive how to use or what to do, but something special.

Reddit has since just transformed into something almost unrecognizable, but its tough to beat the size and reach it's built.

On thing Lemmy is going to have to worry about is bots. I'm hoping the decentralization is a good solution to both monetization and bots. We shall see.

Unpopular opinion: it should stay a little bit slow. Every other commercialized platform trains us for immediate gratification.

For me lemmy is pretty much impossible to browse without jerboa, the oficial site has a very clunky UI and jerboa solves that problem. Thankfully third-party applications aren't going extinct here

Crypto and NFTs are money-laundering scams with a lot of technobabble thrown in to hide the truth from normies. I knew it was a scam when one of my friends, who is a smart guy but not a tech guy, bought into BTC because he thought it was clearly the future. I think he made money on his first BTC, and I’m pretty sure he lost on his second and third BTC, and I feel terrible for him because it was with some of his retirement. He’s going to have to work a trade job for years longer than if he’d just put that same money in an index fund, because he got sucked in by the allure of crypto.

I’m not huge on governmental regulation of people’s decisions with their money, but I have a personal rule. If you can’t explain it in a sentence to the average 10 year old or they understand it and it sounds like it should be illegal to said ten year old, it’s not a good idea. It’s easy to explain how a basic investment in a company that makes physical goods can be profitable. Try to explain NFTs to a fifth grader without using words like “profit from nothing” and see what they think.

If the stock market is already artificially high for a few reasons, crypto and NFTs were/are even a step higher in artificial pricing and being a tool for rich people to get richer and hide their money from the few governments powerful enough to dare tax them.

Fuck those crypto shills. I've fallen for their bait back in '16 and 17. I learned the hard way that it's grifts on top of grifts all the way down

Reddit would never come to exist in that case, I think. MySpace and Facebook would probably've had a harder time growing. The sheer amount of php forums over the net was mind blowing.

I'm sad to hear you did not feel like a good explanation of the fediverse was given. Is there something you'd still want to know? I'm no expert but I've been here for a while, so I might be able to help or at least guide you!

Feel free to ask! And if you don't feel like commenting on here, feel free to DM me with questions too.